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=Sackingen= (_The Trumpeter of_). Werner, a trumpeter, discourses such divine music upon his instrument as gains him access to a baronial castle, the good-will of the baron and the love of Margaret, the baron's daughter.--Victor Hugo, _The Trumpeter of Sackingen_.

=Sacred Nine= (_The_), the Muses, nine in number.

Fair daughters of the Sun, the Sacred Nine, Here wake to ecstasy their harps divine.

Falconer, _The s.h.i.+pwreck_, iii. 3 (1756).

=Sacred War= (_The_), a war undertaken by the Amphictyonic League for the defence of Delphi, against the Cirrhaeans (B.C. 595-587).

_The Sacred War_, a war undertaken by the Athenians for the purpose of restoring Delphi to the Phocians (B.C. 448-447).

_The Sacred War_, a war undertaken by Philip of Macedon, as chief of the Amphictyonic League, for the purpose of wresting Delphi from the Phocians (B.C. 357).

=Sa'cripant= (_King_), king of Circa.s.sia, and a lover of Angelica.--Bojardo, _Orlando Innamorato_ (1495); Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

With the same stratagem, Sacripant had his steed stolen from under him, by that notorious thief Brunello, at the siege of Albracca.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 9 (1605).

? The allusion is to Sancho Panza's a.s.s, which was stolen from under him by the galley-slave, Gines de Pa.s.samonte.

_Sacripant_, a false, noisy, hectoring braggart; a kind of Pistol or Bobadil.--Ta.s.so, _Secchia Rapita_ (_i.e._ ”Rape of the Bucket”).

=Sa'dak and Kalasra'de= (4 _syl._), Sadak, general of the forces of Am'urath, sultan of Turkey, lived with Kalasrade in retirement, and their home life was so happy that it aroused the jealousy of the sultan, who employed emissaries to set fire to their house, carry off Kalasrade to the seraglio, and seize the children. Sadak, not knowing who were the agents of these evils, laid his complaint before Amurath, and then learnt that Kalasrade was in the seraglio. The sultan swore not to force his love upon her till she had drowned the recollections of her past life by a draught of the waters of oblivion. Sadak was sent on this expedition. On his return, Amurath seized the goblet, and, quaffing its contents, found ”that the waters of oblivion were the waters of death.”

He died, and Sadak was made sultan in his stead.--J. Ridley, _Tales of the Genii_ (”Sadak and Kalasrade,” ix. 1751).

=Sadaroubay.= So Eve is called in Indian mythology.

=Saddletree= (_Mr. Bartoline_), the learned saddler.

_Mrs. Saddletree_, the wife of Bartoline.--Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.).

=Sadha-Sing=, the mourner of the desert.--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon's Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Saemund Sigfusson=, surnamed ”the Wise,” an Icelandic priest and scald. He compiled the _Elder_ or _Rythmical Edda_, often called _Saemund's Edda_.

This compilation contains not only mythological tales and moral sentences, but numerous sagas in verse or heroic lays, as those of Volung and Helge, of Sigurd and Brynhilda, of Folsungs and Niflungs (pt.

ii.). Probably his compilation contained all the mythological, heroic, and legendary lays extant at the period in which he lived (1054-1133).

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